The Other, Other Alternative Coalition (TOOAC) is a group of prominent Linux distributors and supporters whose goal is to use the common knowledge, marketing strategies, and funds of members to promote the Linux operating system in areas where Linux penetration is not very high.

Welcome.

Sat, 01/19/2008 - 11:29pm — Ben Feldman

First of all, thanks for checking out the prototype/staging area of TOOAC.

Now let me introduce myself: my name is Ben Feldman, and I'm a 13 year old kid who lives a rather free culture-like life. I run (GNU/)Linux, as little proprietary software as possible (a.k.a. Skype), absolutely hate DRM, and generally speaking tend to have issues with most major corporations in the world (mostly relating to forced use of proprietary applications or operating systems, closed standards, DRM, Internet connection throttling, clear anti-Network neutrality stance, support of software patents etc.).

While I can't say I'm the first to think of the idea of a group of higher-end Linux distributors/supporters joining together to work on mainstream marketing, I haven't heard of any attempts, so I decided I'd give it a run.

If you work for or are involved in any of these companies/organizations and agree with what I'm trying to help accomplish, I implore you to get something going internally. Whether that means spamming sending an email to some colleagues, speaking to someone higher up ... I'd be very grateful. My email address is ben at benfeldman.us, and any contact even merely acknowledging your attempts would be outstanding.

Over the next little while, I plan on writing up a lot of content (articles and tutorials, mostly) that would be useful to the project - should it succeed. I'm not overly confident at this point, but I'm passionate about this succeeding, so we'll see...

Once I feel like I've got a good bunch of work up, I do plan on contacting companies like Novell, Google, Red Hat, Canonical, Xandros and Linspire.

I'm not positive how often I will feel the need to create a new front page story (right now, a lot of thought in my mind is going towards the best way to organize the different kinds of content by their type - screencasts, images, audio, text - and their relevance), however I will almost certainly be updating my TOOAC prototype blog.

Thanks for reading!
Ben Feldman
ben at benfeldman.us

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